Notre Musique
2005
Divided into three "kingdoms" -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) -- Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times. Read more
| Starring | Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine |
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| Director | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Notre Musique
Divided into three "kingdoms" -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) -- Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times.
| Starring | Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine, Jean-Christophe Bouvet |
|---|---|
| Director | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 20 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | French |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 15 Aug 2005 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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NOTRE MUSIQUE is Godard's post-9/11 statement, a meditation on how war emerges from the eternal, and hypocritical duality of human perception
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The film defies reductive readings. All that seems clear, finally, is that there can be no one right side amid so much wrong
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
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Can the little digital cameras save cinema?
A questionner asks the great director Godard at one point and he does not reply. This must be deliberate and it is almost as if cienema has died for Godard and he is all washed up with his art. If this reading is close to being correct he has left one of the most significant bodies of work in the (short) history of cinema from the 1950's on. The movie is divided into three based on Dante's Inferno: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The first part of the movie consists in a collage of various war images and situations accompanied by a musical score (Tchiakovsky and Sibelius). As usual with Godard the overall use of music is superb. The images are shocking but somehow muted and poor quality. Some sentences are said off screen. 'Death can be seen in two different ways: as the possible of the impossible or as the impossible of the possible'. Is this clever or dumb: I don't know but all this is certainly a bit difficult to follow. The second part shows us the crossed stories of various meetings in Sarajevo for the Book Week: Godard himself, a young Israeli journalist, a Palestinian and a Spanish poets, a young Hebrew girl, a Hebrew translator with Egyptian origins, some American natives, and various other people speak about their experiences, their hopes, war, peace, poetry, history, life, death, cinema, reconciliation. A rather disreputable looking Godard gives a lecture to some cinema students and shows them photographs from Howard Hawks 'His Girl Friday'. You may or may not have fun working out what all this is about. The third part takes place in a paradise and shows us a girl who has been killed in a cinema by Israeli snipers who suspected her of being a suicide bomber. She had a red bag with her and the soldier/police thought it contained a bomb. In fact there were just books in it. Shades of events at Stockwell tube circa July 2005. This version of paradise is fenced and guarded by US soldiers. Yes, just like the world is except this is not a paradise and for some may even be hell itself and the US may be the devil incarnate. So, provocative stuff from old Jean Luc. Needless to say I highly recommend a rental to all his fans with a severe health warning to all the rest of you - probably 99% of the cinema audience.
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Can the little digital cameras save cinema?
A questionner asks the great director Godard at one point and he does not reply. This must be deliberate and it is almost as if cienema has died for Godard and he is all washed up with his art. If this reading is close to being correct he has left one of the most significant bodies of work in the (short) history of cinema from the 1950's on. The movie is divided into three based on Dante's Inferno: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The first part of the movie consists in a collage of various war images and situations accompanied by a musical score (Tchiakovsky and Sibelius). As usual with Godard the overall use of music is superb. The images are shocking but somehow muted and poor quality. Some sentences are said off screen. 'Death can be seen in two different ways: as the possible of the impossible or as the impossible of the possible'. Is this clever or dumb: I don't know but all this is certainly a bit difficult to follow. The second part shows us the crossed stories of various meetings in Sarajevo for the Book Week: Godard himself, a young Israeli journalist, a Palestinian and a Spanish poets, a young Hebrew girl, a Hebrew translator with Egyptian origins, some American natives, and various other people speak about their experiences, their hopes, war, peace, poetry, history, life, death, cinema, reconciliation. A rather disreputable looking Godard gives a lecture to some cinema students and shows them photographs from Howard Hawks 'His Girl Friday'. You may or may not have fun working out what all this is about. The third part takes place in a paradise and shows us a girl who has been killed in a cinema by Israeli snipers who suspected her of being a suicide bomber. She had a red bag with her and the soldier/police thought it contained a bomb. In fact there were just books in it. Shades of events at Stockwell tube circa July 2005. This version of paradise is fenced and guarded by US soldiers. Yes, just like the world is except this is not a paradise and for some may even be hell itself and the US may be the devil incarnate. So, provocative stuff from old Jean Luc. Needless to say I highly recommend a rental to all his fans with a severe health warning to all the rest of you - probably 99% of the cinema audience.
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